North Crescent Primary School

‘Guiding explorers of the future’

School has now re-opened for EYFS and keyworker children. We look forward to welcoming our Year 1 children from Monday 8th June. Any questions or queries please contact the school office Monday - Friday 8:30am - 3:30pm. Thank you :)*****Weekly homelearning projects, activities, ideas and guidance can be found in the Children tab, click on Class Pages :)

Phonics

Phonics and Reading Fun!

Welcome to the phonics page. Phonics is our way of helping your child to read and write. It teaches children the sounds represented by different letters and groups of letters.

Phonics is fun and lays the foundation for key English skills. It is taught throughout the school and starts in Early Years. At North Crescent we follow Letters and Sounds, a systematic synthetic phonics scheme of work. Letters and Sounds enables children to see the relationship between reading and spelling from an early stage, such that the teaching of one reinforces understanding of the other. Decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) are treated as reversible processes. The teaching and learning of spelling continues onto our spelling scheme - Topical Spelling.

In reading, we use Book Bands and Bridging Bands to differentiate our reading materials. Within this, children may read books from the Oxford Reading Tree, Badger, Collins and Rigby Star reading schemes. Book Bands work on a colour-coded system and work throughout the school. We warmly encourage you to supplement school reading books with ones from the local library and those that you may wish to purchase yourselves. If you would like any advice on supporting your child with reading then please get in touch.

Likewise, If you have any more questions about phonics, then please do not hesitate to contact us for more information.

Meanwhile have a look at these exciting websites - the children play these games in school and would love to play them at home too!